Senior Software Engineer, Dependabot

3 days ago


Remote, Oregon, United States GitHub Full time

Senior Software Engineer, Dependabot
Remote, United States
Engineering
Experienced Professional
Individual Contributor
Yes
3031
Full Time

Job Description
About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build some of the world's most important software.

On the GitHub Dependabot Updates team, we're on a mission to safeguard the world's software dependencies - from open source to enterprise. We firmly believe that the key to securing software is to identify security concerns early in the development cycle and provide developers with an exceptional user experience that encourages and supports them to rectify any security vulnerabilities in a way that seamlessly fits into their workflows.

The Dependabot updates (DU) team delivers supply chain solutions. This includes identifying outdated versions of libraries for 20+ ecosystems, creating pull requests to address vulnerabilities and obsolete versions, and offering customizable configuration options. The team is responsible for the services that provide a first-class experience on GitHub, the open-source library supporting multiple ecosystems, and the infra components needed to run dependabot successfully across multiple platforms. These products, which are an integral part of the Advanced Security platform on GitHub, empower individuals and organizations to build safer and more secure software.

The opportunity:

Come join our engineering team and help us secure software for millions of users and enterprises across the world The team has a lot of exciting projects ahead for you to lead, including adding support for new languages and package managers, empowering users to understand their dependencies and how to secure them, and scaling to meet GitHub's global demand.

The Engineering organization is highly distributed and the right candidate can thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.


Responsibilities

Lead technical decision making and architecture

Architect and implement highly available distributed systems

Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making

Document the systems you help architect, build, and maintain

Maintain and improve APIs used internally at GitHub

Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Ruby, Go, JavaScript, and Python.

Be a role model to create a culture of psychological safety both within the team and cross-team, where differing views can be shared and heard


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

For this role, we're looking for an experienced software engineer with

6+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping high-quality software at scale.

3+ years experience building and/or consuming REST-style APIs

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, planning, and organization.

A passion for fostering good engineering practices, tools, and processes

Highly developed organizational, people, and process skills

Ability to create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, priorities, and progress between the team, the org, and the broader company

Experience with Git and GitHub
Experience with open source software, maintainers, and community curation.
Additionally, any of the following experiences would be considered a plus: working with distributed teams and operating effectively across multiple timezones; building developer tools; exposure to and/or advocacy of static/dynamic analysis tools or security best practices.


Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $104, USD $276,900.00 /Yr.



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